The "I Just Bought" thread

October 28th, 2013, 15:40

Originally Posted by Drithius
Pretty good actually. I think the loudest fan in my case is from the PC Power Silencer psu… which is good enough for me. I'm using a pair of Quiet Corsair SP120 fans on the h100i's radiator, though.

Although I would have preferred a push-pull fan setup, the Corsair 500r case didn't have room for it. Still, it's been fine in retrospect. Running at 4.4ghz only has me idling at 30-35C°; max-load under prime95 had me at 75-77C° …but from what I gather, that's normal for a Haswell chip (things run hot!) with 95% of the efficiency.

I read some reviews about a Noctua NH-D14 outperforming the h100i and, even if that's true, I very much prefer the minisccule case footprint of the h100i.

That is pretty good. I actually run a little hotter but that is probably because I have put all the fans at fairly modest rpm (you can practically only hear some air whoosh in a dead quiet room). I get around 39 idle on the hottest core on a 25 Celsius room. and never more than 60-63 on extended gaming sessions. I expect its quite a bit better now that the weather has cooled but I don't bother to look anymore, naturally.

I get up to 82-83 on my personal flavor of stress testing: 1-2 hours of the heavy duty 100% blend test running in tandem with a unigine benchmark so that the gfx card will put some extra heat in the case. If there are thermal problems or whea errors to be found at all on the OC they ought to come out there in my experience.

I doubt there is a lot of difference between the Noctua the Thermalright and the H100i on average. The Haswell did seem to be quite a bit hotter than even the already too hot ivy bridge so I decided to play it safe on the mature platform. Very happy with the system but it seems a decent OC is pretty doable on the Haswells too without too much noise, after all…

I was going to suggest the Noctuas for your H100i btw but you seem to have it covered

I have all my normal case fans set to intake - even the rear panel fan - and the topmounted h100i set to exhaust. This seems to work really well; the low rpms on the sp120 fans are helped by the positive pressure in the case. Plus, the rear panel intake is pumping somewhat cooler air directly into the path of the chip & radiator.

I should have never cut corners 4 years ago and gone with an AMD phenom/architecture. I usually don't upgrade chips this quickly but the poor core performance was truly pissing me off.

Standard DVD version of "Despicable Me 2" : Stay away from it !
It has an only very basic menu and only 2 "Making Of" - Documentaries -
- and NONE of the short movies !
ALL of the good stuff is to be found on the Blueray version of it !
I'm very disappointed.
Especially since I don't have any Blueray player. They seem to sell not very good in Germany, still, judging from the prices they charge for Bluerays …

-- “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)

Found a Risen Collector's Edition for 10 Euros. Couldn't hesitate and bought it.
It was located in an Saturn shop within a smaller town - in this particulate one, video games don't sell that well in general.

-- “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)

Honestly, I don't like that anime very much because of too much of episodes, but well… Those looked nice so I got 'em. And I'm very happy now when I saw them for real. The only question is where do I put them to "look nice". I mean… I don't have Jessica Alba's pic somewhere usually placed everywhere including movies just to "look nice".

Here are pics of my balls (yea, I know this is not what you've expected to see). Just so you get the feeling of the size, beside the box is a random DVD from my home collection (Hero, wuxia, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299977/ ).

It anyone is looking for a new Running watch … I have the new Magellan Echo, which actually pairs with a variety of smartphone apps to act as a controller and log your data, and also has a wireless Bluetooth heart-rate monitor.

Also have just gotten the Polar RC3 GPS watch, which is a more traditional 'training computer' GPS watch, with heart-rate monitor using the ANT+ wireless protocol. Pretty solid, loads of great data, but feels rather 'old tech' compared to the Magellan. Also not sure if I would go away from my Garmin for this on a permanent basis.

For whatever reason I couldn't find in local stores what I wanted.
Since I don't want to get scammed by ebay and aliexpress frauds, I've found a certain site with nice looking stuff, yet not expensive at all.
And tried it.